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Black women have the highest death rate from breast cancer of any racial or ethnic group in the …
Cost is one of the most common reasons people put off STD testing, and it is the most …
Your kidney health lives in three lab values: creatinine, eGFR, and uACR. Here is what each number means, …
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Warm compresses help a boil drain. Squeezing spreads the infection deeper. And when boils keep returning to the …
Community health centers charge based on what you earn and cannot turn you away for inability to pay. …
Thick, crumbly, discolored toenails usually mean a fungal infection, and the treatment with the best evidence is a …
There is no national price for an eye exam, and the cheapest option is usually the wrong one. …
Urgent care chains that post self-pay rates charge $175 to $180 for a standard visit. The emergency room …
Scabies mites do not care how clean your home is, and on Black skin the rash rarely matches …
Federal law requires nonprofit hospitals to offer free or discounted care and to accept your application for at …
Colorectal cancer screening starts at age 45, and the disease is the third leading cause of cancer death …
A keloid is scar tissue that never got the message to stop. It grows past the borders of …
Here is something the price-comparison sites will not tell you: there is no reliable published national price for …
Two numbers frame everything about low testosterone. In men showing up to primary care over age 45, about …
The dark mark almost always outlives the pimple, the razor bump, or the eczema patch that caused it. …
The GLP-1 coverage picture changed more in the last year than in the previous five, and most of …
Thinning edges have a medical name: traction alopecia, hair loss from sustained pulling at the hairline. It affects …
Razor bumps are not a hygiene problem and they are not bad luck. They are what happens when …
Soak, seal, rinse, dry. That is the whole routine for swimming with braids or locs, and it takes …
Three in 10 Black adults ages 20 to 64 are living with at least one untreated cavity, and …
Below 5.7 percent is normal, 5.7 to 6.4 percent is prediabetes, 6.5 percent and above is diabetes. Here …
Free and low-cost mammograms exist in every state, and most women who qualify never hear about them. Breast …
Your first dermatologist appointment works best when you arrive with three things: dated photos of the concern, a …
Scalp ringworm (tinea capitis) is a fungal infection that lives inside the hair follicle, and no cream can …
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